"Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on……" — Ludwig Quidde
"Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war."
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Ludwig Quidde
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24 Quotes by Ludwig Quidde
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It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources…
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The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must…
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When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even…
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Time and time again we have experienced efforts directed toward this popular and simple concept of securing peace by means…
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Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.
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Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they…
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Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.
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Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the…
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I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided…
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Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in…
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Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring…
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So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a…
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Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a…
— William Jennings Bryan
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In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of…
— Albert Einstein
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I am firmly convinced that in the world of today all nations will be forced to the conclusion that cooperation…
— Cordell Hull
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So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the…
— Jean Vanier
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Why buy repeater carbines and nuclear armament - if this is kept at home a child can play with it
— Jean Chretien
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Today when the public thinks of the products of science it is likely to think about environmental problems, an unproductive…
— Unknown Author
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These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice,…
— Samuel Johnson
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The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase…
— Norman Thomas
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It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system. I…
— Hermann Oberth
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There is a common belief that under modern conditions peace cannot be assured except on the basis of an equal…
— Pope John XXIII
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We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If a country develops an economic system that is based on how to pay for the war, and if the…
— Unknown Author
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